Sunday, April 24, 2011

The top floor will have tubular skylights, there will be approximately three skylights per room.  The amount of natural light entering through each skylight will be controlled by the touch panel in each classroom.

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These are two of the openings in the roof from one of the classrooms.  The tubes that come through the roof will allow light to shine into the room through a plastic lens in the ceiling.

 

 

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The opening from the roof side of the skylights. This is the first step in the process, an opening was cut though the roof to the concrete deck.  A large core drill was used to make a 14” round hole through the concrete deck.DSC_0074

 

 

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This is the completed framing and the finished roof surface.  The next step is to wrap the plywood with a material to complete the process of making the opening water tight.

The skylight will sit on top of this wooden curb.

 

 

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The work on the new addition  is continuing.  The elevator shaft is complete.  The walls have been poured for the lower level.  The two openings in the wall are the windows for the media center office.  Installation of structural steel is the next step.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Concrete was placed inside the building and in the walls for the addition.
Two different pumps were used.

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The trailer pump has a bin that the concrete is dumped in from the truck. The concrete is pumped through a hose to where it is needed.

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Finished product, the floor where the south stairwell was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A truck style pump works in the same manner.  The truck concrete pump has a boom that allows the operator to place concrete in a specific place. In this case the new walls for the addition.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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West entrance looking to the east, the stage is at the back of the photo.  This area will be the auditorium, middle school commons, multi purpose room, and video production area.







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Decking and structural steel filling in the old south stairwell.  This decking will be covered with concrete, this will make the halls from the new area into the class room part of the building.




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The new elevator shaft is almost complete.  The shaft is being constructed with concrete blocks.  The work is completed in lifts so that the mortar between the lower blocks has time to dry.





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A telescopic forklift is used to deliver pallets of concrete blocks to the scaffolding for the elevator shaft.  This allows heavy loads to be raised from ground level to platforms several feet in the air.  In this case approximately 30 feet in the air.





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These forms are for the basement walls of the new addition.  The forms create a sandwich with the metal rebar in the middle.  The rebar adds structural strength to the walls.  After the second face is installed concrete will be poured into the forms.

Monday, April 4, 2011

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Dry wall delivery crane is used to load several sheets of sheet rock to the top floor.
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This is the curved wall at the high school commons and the teachers work space.DSC_0110




Duct work on the top floor, the black pipe on the left is the fire sprinkler system.



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This photograph shows the layers of wall construction around the windows. 
Left to right:
Wall Plaster
Concrete blocks
Common Brick
Castle rock Rhyolite